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[solemn fractal]

    [SerializeField] private int _enemyHealth;

    void Start(){
    }

    void Update(){  
    }
    
    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {
        if (other.CompareTag("PlayerBullet")){

            PlayerBullet playerBullet = other.GetComponent<PlayerBullet>();

            _enemyHealth -= playerBullet.PlayerBulletDamangeGetSet;

            if (_enemyHealth <= 0){
                Destroy(this.gameObject);
            }
        }
    } ```

[summer stump]

Well, _enemyHealth is private. It is not static. You seem to only be modifying it on the actual instance and not a prefab....

I am not sure what the issue is
Nothing here should affect other objects

[solemn fractal]

Yeah.. i just wanted to kill an enemy and the HP goes from 1 to 0, the enemy destroys and the other enemies are not affected. Now if I kill 1 all the other enemies also get 0 hp.

[rich adder]

btw why send reply like "Got it thank you" from code sent, if you're not going to end up using the code sent lol

[solemn fractal]

Not sure if I understand. But all good guys. Thank you for the help. Will figure it out here.

[timid quartz]

thanks for this - got it all working now! I'll make sure to put you and Navarone in the credits of my game 🙂

[feral osprey]

maybe you should make 2 variables
static for starting health
and non static for health of instance

[rich adder]

nah was talking about
what you're doing is redundant from earlier

checking Tag and the component instead of just doing it all one 1 like above

[solemn fractal]

I tried this, but was not working and I didnt want to push it further to not bother with same question over and over. I already have a lot of issues going on to fix, and if I applied this one it would just make it harder. As I applied and it said I couldnt use it the way you wrote. So i just went back again to what I was doing

[feral osprey]

wrong?

[summer stump]

Very

[feral osprey]

😦

[rich adder]

I mean issue was probably me missing doing other.collider. but you can inquire if it gave you issue, its no bother esp if I made the suggestion lol

[solemn fractal]

I have so many questions, I try to simplify the most my enquiry. In the past I asked too much here and people blocked me saying I was not trying enough. So I always take care not to ask too much or insist. If I see that I am not udnerstanding or not being able to apply, I just leave it for now, fix the issues that I have and maybe try it later or not. But thank you.

[rich adder]

its never a bother if you ask questions when you're confused, no worries

[solemn fractal]

Got it, thank you.

[tall lodge]

Everything else you've shown doesn't seem to be the issue. But does your SpawnManager or the _enemyList handle destroying/removing any objects?

[solemn fractal]

No, enemies are being destroyed anywhere but in the EnemyHealth.

[viral hound]

im trying to use a movement system in 2d with rigidbody using addforce forcemode.force, but its really incosistent when i test it, almost like the values are changing every time... i tried looking online and people say its because its in Update(), but im not really sure what to do.

[summer stump]

Do not use deltaTime in AddForce.
Just a guess

[viral hound]

its not

[summer stump]

And yeah, always do physics in FixedUpdate

[viral hound]

when i tried to but the same functions in fixed update its not working

do i have to make the values stronger?

[summer stump]

Define not working

[summer stump]

Perhaps

[viral hound]

ok let me test a bit

[summer stump]

FixedUpdate will often happen a lot less often if the games fps is fast or just normal
It is called 50 times per second ideally (but can be changed in settings)

[viral hound]

when i put in fixed update i had to make the values likes 10 times stronger than update

is that normal

[raw token]

That makes sense for the time-relevant force modes, I think...

[summer stump]

Yeah, sounds normal

[tall lodge]

Depending on your framerate, yes.

[viral hound]

dam so if someone else ran this, will they move at different speeds depending on their frame rate?

[raw token]

If you're continuously applying a force scaled by time, it'll be relative to the physics step. So if you're applying continuous force in Update(), then you're often accumulating multiple steps worth of force into a single physics update to greater effect

[tall lodge]

Exactly

[summer stump]

Not anymore. Not in FixedUpdate

[viral hound]

wait so it does or doesnt?

[summer stump]

It does not

[tall lodge]

In Update it would. In FixedUpdate, it should be the same for different users

[viral hound]

ahhh ok

[summer stump]

DeltaTime is included in the AddForce calculations, so it really wouldn't in update either
But it is not stably called in Update

[viral hound]

thx 👍

[tall lodge]

Update runs once per frame. Players at a higher framerate it would run faster for. FixedUpdate runs once every fixed frame (50 per second by default) so for every user it would try and stay consistent

[summer stump]

AddForce uses deltaTime in its calculations internally, so even at different framerates it would run about the same. It would just not be as stable because it would not run at the cadence of PhysX/Box2Ds interal update

[tall lodge]

Ah neat

[tall lodge]

I guess this is true for general use then. I haven't looked at AddForce in Update as closely

[north oar]

im like 3 weeks into learning unity and i was feeling confidnet with what i was learning at the beginnign with the basic stuff but now im watching tutorials and it just feels like im copy pasting everything without being able to understand it and its kinda stressful anyone else gone thru a similar experience?

[drowsy flare]

Fake it til you mak eit

[slender nymph]

if the tutorial does not take the time to actually explain what it is doing (and more importantly why it is doing that) then it is not a tutorial worth watching

[drowsy oriole]

Where do I learn code

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[drowsy oriole]

Nvm

[steel hull]

same reaction haha

but I am doing it :/

[drowsy oriole]

i am to

[steel hull]

uhm okay no offense to any worker but are unity's web servers running on a potato?

[steel hull]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[steel hull]

this is really bad

I am sorry but

the videos don't load

the site itself doesn't load

[worthy tundra]

i went through the exact same lol

[strong harness]

If the destination point is not on baked nav meshes, Can it return a path which the last point is the closest point on nav meshes?
Suppose there is a square or circle obstacle and the target point is the center of the square/rectangle. It should find the path without needing a change in the stopping distance

[languid spire]

yes, it will return a partial path

[strong harness]

Perfect, thanks. and the path result is completed?

 if (!_agent.isPathStale && _agent.pathStatus == NavMeshPathStatus.PathComplete)
            {
                if (_agent.remainingDistance > StoppingDistance + 0.01f)
                {
                    PathStatus = PathStatus.Running;
                   
                }
                else
                {
                    PathStatus = PathStatus.Completed;

_agent.remainingDistance is based on the last point or target point?

because, in my test, it can return the path correctly

[languid spire]

no, it will return PathPartial
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshPathStatus.html

[languid spire]

good question, I'm guessing target point

[strong harness]

So, it does not work as I want

I should find the distance between the last point on the path (partial) and the closest point on the obstacle

[languid spire]

Generally I just check remaining distance and/or isStopped

you can also check agent position against the last position in the path

[strong harness]

I have checked, the last point on the path and also destination is not target point.

It is the closest point to the target point on baked nav meshes. Therefore, remaining distance is a distance from the current point to the destination point (last point on the path) not target point we have given to it

In the above example, the target point is the center of mass. Nav mesh agent returns path complete

See. The distance between the character point and target is around 1m but stopping distance is 0.05

[steel hull]

yo uhm

can someone help me in a vc? I need to screenshare

or I can just send them a video

[frosty hound]

You can send the video here and someone can help if they want, no need to bait someone into a 1:1 call.

[steel hull]

bait? my native language isn't english that is why I wanted to screen share I can't really explain what is going on-

but here a video

[steel hull]

basically the player object is an empty object

and the capsule is the body basically which is underneath the player

IDK what is causing this

[umbral rock]

So i have a codeblock right here and i dont know if i understand it correctly, so its used for an inventory drag and drop system and im trying to understand the code, so image.raycasttarget, is that just to scan if ur dropping the item on one of the slots? and if it drops on one of the slots then he sets the parent of that item to the itemslot? and he also does an image,raycasttarget = true; to scan if u drop the item on a slot? is that right?

[wintry quarry]

raycastTarget sets whether a UI element is visible to the event system's raycasters.

setting it true means it will receive and block UI events

false means it won't

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.UI.Graphic.html#UnityEngine_UI_Graphic_raycastTarget

[steep rose]

the rigidbody is supposed to be on the parent object, not on one of its children. also like everyone else said you are using a character controller so dont use a rigidbody, you have to choose either rigidbody or character controller they do not like eachother

also rigidbodies dont like you setting the transform, thats why they have applyforce

[fallow galleon]

Hey i kind of need help with unity and VS code. When i remove restricted work space most of my code turns blue.

[umbral rock]

so if u end the dragging in this case the UI events will be blocked and because of that he goes back to his traditional position? and when u begin dragging u'll tell it that UI events are possible? but why if i drag and drop on another slot the item is not attached to the new slot? is that because u set the transform.parent to his root? so it goes to the traditional slot?

[fallow galleon]

When i turn on restricted mode. My c# and unity extention gets disabled

But code becomes normal

[steep rose]

sounds like you need to configure your !ide

[eternal falcon]

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[fallow galleon]

Can you elaborate maybe?

[steel hull]

then how am I supposed to apply physics? its an empty object

[steep rose]

if you put the rigidbody on it, the rigidbody comes with a collider

and physics

i do that for my player

[steel hull]

and you move the player with velocity?

is that correct?

[steep rose]

applyforce

you can move it with velocity but just dont set its transform

[steel hull]

so which one is better?

[steep rose]

actually now that i look at it you seem fine, does the code function?

[steel hull]

yep, no issues

oh

no need to say it

[steep rose]

depending on your preference and what game you are making, you choose one, if your game requires physics use the build in rigidbody, if you want to make your own physics use character controller

character controller requires skill to make good physics but it is worth it due to the fact you can control anything via your script

rigidbody's interact fully with unitys physics system

[steel hull]

yay now I need to re do my movement script

amazing

yippe

you said not to use transform on rigidbodies but can I rotate them with transform?

you know cuz the body should move with the camera

[wintry quarry]

you should not move or rotate a Rigidbody via the Transform

only use the Rigidbody

[steep rose]

i would suggest looking at a rigidbody movement tutorial

it goes over all of that

[steel hull]

alright thanks

uhm one more question wouldn't setting the velocity be the same as addforce?

[umbral rock]

So im wondering, he is using inventoryitem in this code, is this the script called inventoryitem or is it the prefab that he uses? and he gets the inventoryitem component...

[steel hull]

your assistance is heavily required 🙂

[steep rose]

give me a minute im getting pinged left right and center

[steel hull]

dw man, love you

[umbral rock]

yes but there is an other script called inventoryitem and then he uses inventoryitem in this script, or is it the prefab called inventoryitem he uses?

[wintry quarry]

C# code doesn't know or care about obejcts in the project or the scene

it only knows about code

InventoryItem refers to the InventoryItem class.

[umbral rock]

Aah and then he gets the InventoryItem component wich is the actual InventoryItem prefab?

[wintry quarry]

it's the instance of the InventoryItem script that is attached to whatever object the pointer is dragging

definitely not a prefab

[steep rose]

either i would follow these series of tutorials and stop to where you want it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f473C43s8nE&t=189s

or these series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqnPeqoJRFY

[steel hull]

ty

[umbral rock]

well, he gets that component wich is basically the item right? and then if u drop it on a slot he sets that components parent to that slot?

i guess its like that?

[wintry quarry]

he's setting some field or property called parentAfterDrag

on the script instance of the dragged item

from the context of this screenshot alone I can't tell you any more than that

he gets that component wich is basically the item right
It's definitely a script which is meant to represent an item.

[umbral rock]

this is the inventoryitem script

so if i understand it correctly, this is just the dragging code and if u stop dragging then he will go back to his original parent, then the second script he made is when the item is dropped he checks if the slot is empty and if so he picks the inventoryitem component and then sets his parent to the new slot?

[winter tinsel]

how difficult would it be to make a grid inventory system?

like this

items have different sizes instead of just taking up one inventory slot

[wintry quarry]

not that difficult

[steel hull]

uhm guys what is drag

[wintry quarry]

each item just has a list of Vector2Int positions, and you just loop over allt hepositoons for overlap and bounds checks

[steel hull]

nvm got it

[winter tinsel]

then ig the acutal grid looking part would be more just asthetic and doesnt have to do anything with code?

ill just mark the min and max lengths and widths of the inventory so items can know where to show up lol

[wintry quarry]

Well there would be a grid in your data model but yes of course, visuals are always just aesthetic and not in the code

[winter tinsel]

allright thanks

[sly monolith]

hi there, i tried to program and would like to get some examples for code in visualstudio but i cant find the preference tab anywhere can anyone help me with this?

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Preferences.html

[umbral rock]

is this actually a good explanation for the code?

[sly monolith]

the problem is it isnt there

[wintry quarry]

sure it is

show screenshots

[wintry quarry]

You're looking at the wrong application

it's in the Unity editor

[sly monolith]

oh🤦‍♂️

ty

[umbral rock]

I still dont rly understand what the component InventoryItem is? is that these things?

[wintry quarry]

the inspector shows all the components on a GameObject

you would see it in the inspector if you attached to that object

[sly monolith]

btw how do i get my visual studio to give me examples for code in can use? because its not rlly giving me any

[formal hill]

Anyone know how I can make it so the camera rotates and goes up so the player can see something when going downhill?

My current camera code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Camera : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Player;
    private Vector3 offset;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        offset = transform.position - Player.transform.position;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        transform.position = Player.transform.position + offset;
    }


    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

Configure it

!ide

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[wintry quarry]

Learn to use cinemachine

[formal hill]

Yeah... I tried that, but the results were... laughable it just didnt work with how I wanted the games camera to be

[umbral rock]

huh, but what does he acces with the getcomponent inventoryitem then?

[wintry quarry]

the InventoryItem script instance on the hovered object

as mentioned

[umbral rock]

yes but how does he drop the item in the slot then? he sets the transform of the inventoryitemscript to the slot transform?

[wintry quarry]

with this code

[formal hill]

Is there really no other way?

[wintry quarry]

If you're really interested in the details maybe don't watch a "speedrun" that skips over stuff

[wintry quarry]

Of course there are other ways. Cinemachine is the easiest.

[sudden pilot]

guys the problem ıs When ı press A and D character not turns same rotatıon Anyone know why?

[formal hill]

Yeah for me that wasn't the case unfortunately. When I used cinemachine the camera would spin with the character because it's a ball and the freelook just didnt work

[steep rose]

you are affecting scale

[wintry quarry]

Yeah for me that wasn't the case unfortunately.
What makes you say this? It seems like you have no idea how to code what you want, so why would you say cinemachine wasn't easier. What are you comparing it to?

[steep rose]

you should be using rotations

eulers or quaternions (the bane of my existance)

[sudden pilot]

oh

[sudden pilot]

in some tutorıals other people doıng that too

localScale thıng

[formal hill]

I got the camera working way faster doing it the way I did without cinemachine that's why. And I do have an idea to code what I want to just not everything I want to. I started using unity like 5 days ago

[steep rose]

thats probably for crouching

[sudden pilot]

no ıt ıs not

[steep rose]

scale has nothing to do with rotation

[wintry quarry]

you can achieve a "flip" effect with scale

the real question is

[sudden pilot]

ohh ı mean rotatıon for just left and rıght

[wintry quarry]

did you take any debugging steps for your code @sudden pilot

What makes you think it's not working

[steep rose]

ah yeah now that i think about it if you set scale to a negative it will flip, not sure why you would want that though 🤔 well maybe for 2d it would be good

beats me

[wintry quarry]

Yes but what you achieved is something very simple that could be accomplished with just a PositionConstraint. Doing more complex things will be easier with cinemachine

[wintry quarry]

I mean I agree it's not the best way but it's not really the concern at the moment

[sudden pilot]

horizontal ınput works and mathf.sign can take -1 and 1 numbers they have no problem But when ı change scale X ın ınspector when playmode on It change ıtself to 1

dont know why

[wintry quarry]

well yeah your code is setting it

start debugging your code

[formal hill]

Yes I know that, but still I don't know how to use cinemachine properly. I already used hours of my time a few days ago trying to make it work to no avail so I feel like trying to learn cinemachine now would just be a big waste of time.

[steep rose]

you shouldnt give up learning something if it goes wrong

[sudden pilot]

when pressing "D" key

[umbral rock]

okay, i almost understand all of the code, only thing i dont understand is why he sets the parentAfterDrag = transform, what does it do? position the item to the new slot transform?

[sudden pilot]

when pressıng A key

and press nothıng

ıt says local scale X = -1 but

player not turns left

tf xd

[steep rose]

keep in mind localscale if for children of a parent

i believe

and from your script you are applying forces on the parent im guessing

so change it to scale

[sudden pilot]

but there ıs only 1 gameobject

not chıld or parent

[steep rose]

that is a parent object technically, since you have no children under that object why would you use localscale?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-localScale.html

change it to scale not LocalScale

[sudden pilot]

oh that ıs rıght ı wıll do ıt

[errant flower]

im having an issue:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
OnEnterMilk.OnTriggerEnter () (at Assets/scripts/OnEnterMilk.cs:16)

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
OnEnterMilk.OnTriggerEnter () (at Assets/scripts/OnEnterMilk.cs:22)

this is OnEnterMilk.cs
and Areas.cs

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't do anything other than set the value of that field

[wintry quarry]

Why you hide the line numbers 😭

[errant flower]

oh

uh i just didnt add it ;-;

[wintry quarry]

Working without line numbers is like sociopath behavior

[errant flower]

no i meant like in the screenshot lol

[wintry quarry]

Well it's hard to tell which line things are on without line numbers

[wintry quarry]

Pretty clear that areas is null

That's the only reference being dereferenced on those lines

[errant flower]

oh

let me add the full screenshot

[wintry quarry]

I mean we already know what's wrong no?

Assign your areas reference to fix it

[errant flower]

ye but areas is a script and enemy is the same but it doesnt have an error

[wintry quarry]

I don't know what that sentence means

But you need to assign the reference

Regardless of anything else going on

[wintry quarry]

Because you assigned the enemy reference

You didn't assign the areas reference

Also wait how would you even know?

The error happens before the enemy line

[errant flower]

oh

[wintry quarry]

So enemy might not be set up either

[errant flower]

ye but it shows 2 errors

oh wait ye

[wintry quarry]

So what?

[errant flower]

mb thx

[formal hill]

Can anyone just please help or no

[errant flower]

it works thx, i thought scripts didnt needed to be assigned in editor

[wintry quarry]

You need to assign your references, in some way, always. Not sure where you got that idea.

That or you need your code to check if it's assigned before using it

[ripe shard]

This is the idea of what you need to do, you'll have to adapt it to include your camera movement.

camera.transform.forward = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(player.transform.forward, Vector3.up);

[formal hill]

Thanks!

[umbral rock]

so it positions the item into the new slot?

[wintry quarry]

Nope it just sets that field

It doesn't do anything else at all

[wintry quarry]

The field is used later in OnEndDrag as you can see

[umbral rock]

hmm but what code is used to make the dragged item click into the slot u want it in?

[wintry quarry]

Idk what you mean by click but it's hard for me to say having only seen very little of the code

Presumably something in OnEndDrag

[umbral rock]

so its an inventory system im making with drag and drop, i just dont understand wich block of codes make it position into the inventory slot?

for what is this code necessary?

its for dropping the item into the inventory slot right?

[wintry quarry]

Sure

This code runs on the slot you are dropping it into

[umbral rock]

Okay and that code is linked with this

[wintry quarry]

I mean it's related, sure.

"linked" doesn't have much of a specific meaning

[umbral rock]

yes, and when u drop it where does it tell the item to position into the inventory slot?

[wintry quarry]

In OnEndDrag right here

It sets the parent

I don't know the details but I assume these are UI elements and probably the positioning itself is just handled by the RectTransform settings on the thing

[umbral rock]

if i only use this code then if i drag it on a new slot than the item goes back to its original position and not to the new slot... so the second code somehow enables the item to be positioned into the item slot

wich i dont quite understand...

he does this inventoryItem.ParentAfterDrag = transform, so i guess its this that positions the item into the slot?

[wintry quarry]

Nope

Again

It's literally just setting a field on the script

I don't know how many times that needs to be said

That field is used later

[umbral rock]

okay, but why is the code usefull then?

because without it it doesnt attack to the new item slot

its something to do with the parentafterdrop, first its = transform.parent and then on the second code he sets the parent to transform, doesnt that parent the item to the item slot? im rly trying to understand it

[wintry quarry]

Because the OnDragEnd code uses the field that it sets

[fiery breach]

learning how to use structs, idk what im doing. trying to set the DistanceToPlr variable, and etc

[languid spire]

foreach on a struct[] will return a COPY not the original

[fiery breach]

the monster[] is a list of all the monsters, and im trying to play a heartbeat sound if youre within the specific radius

[summer stump]

Read what steve said again and consoder the implications
If you are working on a copy that does not affect the original, then it will not affect the item in the array

[warm raptor]

Hello, In a fps, what would be the best way to detect if a bullet fly close to a player, to later play a fly by sound. my bullet are actual mesh with a rb and I already tried to put a collider in trigger mode around the player, but it doesn't work because the bullets are going to fast.

[umbral rock]

yes indeed, and the field is first set to transform.parent and then to transform, whats the difference?

isnt transform.parent the original parent and transform is to a new parent

[summer stump]

transform is its own transform

Not really sure why they do that instead of setting it to null, but I missed a lot of the conversation obviously

[umbral rock]

look

[summer stump]

transform.parent is its CURRENT parent btw, not original

[umbral rock]

yes thats what i meant

[summer stump]

No I saw that already

[umbral rock]

and then he sets the parent to transform

[summer stump]

Well he set the FIELD to it. I don't see him set the parent to it

[umbral rock]

is it just checking where the item is dropped and then the transform of that item slot is his parent wich makes him attach?

so the parent after he dragged is set to transform.parent wich is his current parent but then he sets the parent to transform wich makes him attach to the item slot i think?

[summer stump]

Why are you watching his speedrun video? It says watch the previous one for more details. I would stop watching this video

[rich adder]

use references in the inspector

[umbral rock]

just tryna understand it lol

[summer stump]

Exactly

[umbral rock]

i dont know how he attaches is...

[summer stump]

Which is why you should not watch this video, and instead watch the one where he explains......

[umbral rock]

is the setparent to transform making the item attzch to the item slot?

[summer stump]

He doesn't setparent to transform, he sets a FIELD to it. Just watch the video where he literally explains what he is doing and why......

[marble hemlock]

Is GetKeyDown better than GetButtonDown?

Am I misunderstanding or don't they both just check for if you're holding down something?

[rich adder]

they serve different purposes

[marble hemlock]

oof

[rich adder]

Button lets you assign your own "keyword" to specific key

eg "JumpKey" rather than Keycodes, some are already predefined

you'd have to do that inside the Input Manager https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-InputManager.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetButton.html

[umbral rock]

yes i know that he sets that field to it, but to what parent is the item attached then? thats what i dont understand wich i have watched in his explaining video

[summer stump]

Well, we cannot possibly know or answer that. Especially not from the tiny snippets you showed, which do not provide that information

[marble hemlock]

ah so its more of just to rename it to fit mine

[rich adder]

its so you can have custom names for specific button

[marble hemlock]

okay thanks

[rich adder]

like drag the player component you want inside a inpsector field for your enemy?

in that case just store the reference in the enemy spawner or whatever is IN the scene spawning enemies, and have that hold the reference to player and pass it on spawn

or make the player a singleton I suppose

[marble hemlock]

im trying to somewhat abandon game tutorials and really just study the functions in documentation, specifically ones i see a lot

a lot of the times they fail to explain why do they do something, or just sort of gloss over it so i just eh

[rich adder]

its rare I dont find it on the api or manual unless its a very recent / uncommon package

[marble hemlock]

its been a bit of a process to find things but its pretty fortunate there are a lot of resources

[rich adder]

pretty much i google anything else, most of the time you find the answers on the unity discussion

[umbral rock]

well, idk what line of code attaches it to a parent

:/

its ofcourse the setparent

wich is first transform.parent

but then he sets it to transform... wich i dont understand

[summer stump]

Again. He does not set it to transform....

That is 1) a different script 2) a field unrelated to the one in the other script

[umbral rock]

he sets the dragparent to transform right?

[summer stump]

He sets that field on the item (you are right, i misread) to the slot's transform

The item SHOULD be a child of the slot, right?

[pale ocean]

hey all im watching a beginner tutorial by codemonkey and for handling movement he uses a capsulecast, what i don't understand is why the capsule cast specifically, and how he landed on the numbers for the player radius & height. can anybody explain this to me.

[steep rose]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.CapsuleCast.html

if you have a question for a reference go to docs

they are your friend

also the Playerheight and Radius are just floats

[pale ocean]

i know, but how did he land on these numbers? what if i wanted to add my own model how would i get these numbers?

[steep rose]

he just adjusted them in game then used the numbers

that he found

also you cant add your own model into a raycast

[pale ocean]

how'd that work

oh

[polar acorn]

You should, 1000%, move those to serialized or public variables that you can adjust in the inspector

[pale ocean]

no i know but the capsule is meant to represent the player

[pale ocean]

i don't really need to these are practically constants he provided. i don't really have a reason to change them

[steep rose]

its nice to have on the spot so you dont need to go back in script every time

but you do you

[pale ocean]

alright then thanks

[marble hemlock]

i might be dumb but how is everyone having their functions with color like this

my code functions fine but everything just shows up white so its somewhat hard to differentiate things

[steep rose]

you need to configure your !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[marble hemlock]

thank you

[pale ocean]

i use an extension called viasfora

[eternal steeple]

would this be a correct usage of Time.deltaTime, want to make sure as i watched a video but i was still slightly confused on it?

accelerationTime += Time.deltaTime;

float accelerationFactor = accelerationCurve.Evaluate(accelerationTime);
currentVelocity = Vector3.Lerp(currentVelocity, targetVelocity, accelerationFactor * Time.deltaTime);

[steep rose]

time.deltatime is used is a wide variety of situations, mainly being in situations that you dont want to update all your code based off the framerate your game is currently at. quake is one of the games that didnt make the game update off a in game timer and instead made the game update off of what the current framerate was, thats why it was either really fast or really slow. always be sure to check docs out for a question like this!

here is the doc below
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-deltaTime.html

but in short, yes it looks to me for it to be correct
edit: I did not see the other time.deltatime, i am blind

[rich adder]

nope, top one is okay though but lerp is wrong
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[steep rose]

you almost gave me a heart attack 😅

i was questioning myself

[rich adder]

yeah the curve part is fine

[eternal steeple]

thanks this is awesome info 😄 just what i needed

[steep rose]

i actually didnt even see that other time.deltatime

[summer stump]

You will definitely want to make them serialized variables. This is one of the bad habits that Code Monkey teaches. Please do not fall into that trap

[rich adder]

thats not what they're talking about. Their IDE is not configured.
But viasfora is pretty much useless now vs2022 now allows colored brackets/parenthesis

[pale ocean]

🤷‍♂️ i downloaded it as part of the tutorial

[marble hemlock]

it wont let me install the package i might be doomed

[pale ocean]

plus it looks nice

[marble hemlock]

it just says to unlock

and then when i go out of it and go back into it, its locked again

[rich adder]

what says what ?

unlock? you mean package manager

[marble hemlock]

ye

[rich adder]

are you doing vscode or VS

[marble hemlock]

visual studio (?)

visual studio is... purple?

[rich adder]

yes

[marble hemlock]

then that one

[rich adder]

VS you dont need to unlock/remove anything

[steep rose]

VScode is blue

[marble hemlock]

was i suposed to be using vscode

[rich adder]

huh? you can use either one

[marble hemlock]

oh

[rich adder]

visual studio is a bit easier to setup

[steep rose]

no, they are mainly chose by preference

[rich adder]

you only need the Unity Workload, then select it in external tools unity

[sleek kayak]

I have just learnt abOut SerializeField, does it have any use other than for testing stuff as a dev?

[rich adder]

its not for testing no

its a solid way of ensuring your references are set/filled

[sleek kayak]

what does that mean?

[rich adder]

its just for exposing the field that is private so you can Drag n Drop a reference inside
a reference is a specific object/component you're looking for

[marble hemlock]

yeah i dont know what im supposed to do next
i changed the external script editor to VS and then went to package manager, but then it just says unlock

[rich adder]

follow the link

there is nothing to do here for VS

you need to check for the Unity workload in the Visual Studio installer

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/gamedev/unity/get-started/getting-started-with-visual-studio-tools-for-unity?pivots=windows#install-visual-studio-and-unity

[stark rune]

for some reason my y fotation goes to -360 or smth like that https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin

[rich adder]

you aint even send the code

[stark rune]

oh sorry

[rich adder]

https://gdl.space

[stark rune]

https://hastebin.com/share/iqadonopom.csharp

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

[wintry quarry]

        //Monster looks at player
        vel = monsterHead.transform.position - playerHead.transform.position;```
This is backwards too

[stark rune]

the script is in the player not the monster

[wintry quarry]

then the comment is wrong

[stark rune]

i tried it backwards but it looks the other way

[stark rune]

ooh yea srry bout that

[stiff abyss]

Why sheep spawn but destroy instantly

https://pastebin.com/dWtgiPWQ

[summer stump]

This video shows very little. At least show the inspector for a sheep

[slender nymph]

where do you put the sheep into gameManager.SelectedItemsList? because if it isn't in that list, it gets destroyed in CleanupInvalidSheep

keep in mind that the instantiated object is not equal to the prefab 😉

[stiff abyss]

how

[slender nymph]

wdym how? they are completely different objects at that point

you and i are both people, that doesn't mean we are the same person

[marble hemlock]

ok going through this again, it seems i cant individually affect these because they're tied to the engineering thing

seems i actually dont need most of the ones in there

i only need the visual studio one

[rich adder]

why are you touching any of that..

I sent you the link on the instructions , follow them

[marble hemlock]

well i was

[rich adder]

each player? wdym by that I'm confused on your setup

[marble hemlock]

but then when i get to the part about installing the unity editor thing, it doesnt really allow me any of those

[rich adder]

"installing the unity editor thing"

where does it say that

[marble hemlock]

i feel like my horrible way of phrasing is a problem let me clarify

[rich adder]

did you check the unity workload ? that was the only important part..

[marble hemlock]

yeah i clicked that one

and i think i already start with it?

it seems to download the entire engineering thing, which has 7 packages inside, including VS, VScode, and JetBrains Rider

[rich adder]

ohh so if they are already part of the same environment doesnt that hold reference to the player in that environment ?

[marble hemlock]

but I don't seem to be able to individually interact with those packages because it says it was installed as a dependency

[rich adder]

clicked what

[marble hemlock]

Game Development with Unity, in Visual Studio

[summer stump]

Get rid of the engineering packag
Oh, thought it was vs code

[marble hemlock]

I'm starting to think I already have those stuff

[rich adder]

why do you need to interact with any packages.. all you gotta do is check the workload and set VS in external tools

[marble hemlock]

i did :(

[rich adder]

show that you set Visual Studio in External Tools

[marble hemlock]

the thing was

[rich adder]

close VS, click regen project files, open script from unity

is the enemy not in the same enviroment? im not familiar with the ml agents workflow too much . I see #archived-machine-learning was archived

seems new channel is #1202574086115557446

[marble hemlock]

OHHHH

IT WORKED

[marble hemlock]

THANK YOU

[rich adder]

hard to explain for me seems there is limited knowledge there on how references work ?

well prefabs cannot reference scene objects, thats about it in terms of differences

so if you spawn it from a scene object, that usually has the reference you need from scene component, you can pass it on spawn

can your enemy spawner not reference the Player ?

if you have multiple players , a singleton is probably not a good fit

wait , does each environment have the player ?

you only need 1 environment with everything plugged in, once you duplicate that they all have their own instances

iirc yeah if they are training on the same model

you probably can do more than 25 depending on how much pc can handle

i haven't touched unity ml since 2020 so I may not have the up to date memory on it

[umbral rock]

Yes indeed (: so i was right?

[summer stump]

I honestly have no idea what you were saying
That was my issue

It sounded like you were misunderstanding WHICH transform the word transform was referring to. It was referring to the slot.... which is what I said at the very very beginning

[desert plinth]

Quick question: Is there something like a SphereCast but that returns multiple RayCastHit variables or something similar? I forgot which function does that.

Preferrably an array of RayCastHits

[wintry quarry]

SphereCastAll

You can look in the docs to find this stuff

[desert plinth]

Thanks mate

[crisp token]

how can I take a gameobject and instantiate a new gameobject as its child?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

[wintry quarry]

Instantiate takes a parameter for the parent

[crisp token]

oh thanks, i wish there was a way to see all the overloads in vs

[sudden pilot]

guys ı cant see anımator wındow

there ıs empty anyone know why?

[umbral rock]

aaah so the transform.parent is the current slot and the transform is to the new slot where u drag the item on?

[crisp token]

they want this to be a Transform but the api says any object should work no?

[wintry quarry]

Why would you Instantiate a new GameObject

Instantiate would be for a prefab

If you're just making a new object get rid of Instantiate

[crisp token]

oh

[wintry quarry]

Also read your error messages

[crisp token]

the error is what I said I think

oh wait im stupid; I misinterpreted it

[summer stump]

Seems like it 🤷‍♂️

[umbral rock]

okay, thank u verry much!! appreciate it

[hidden sable]

does anyone know why I cant import a fbx object with textures to unity (the objects imports completely fine, but leaves the materials/texture behind)

cant even change the material

[scarlet hawk]

it's working much better now, had to do some changes in the code too, ty for the help

[uncut shard]

I've written this code from a tutorial for a basic car control. What should I improve, what better practices should I use?

public class WheelController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] WheelCollider frontRight;
    [SerializeField] WheelCollider frontLeft;
    [SerializeField] WheelCollider rearRight;
    [SerializeField] WheelCollider rearLeft;
    [SerializeField] Transform frontRightTransform;
    [SerializeField] Transform frontLeftTransform;
    [SerializeField] Transform rearRightTransform;
    [SerializeField] Transform rearLeftTransform;

    public float acceleration = 1000f;
    public float brakingForce = 750f;
    public float maxTurnAngle = 15f;

    private float currentAcceleration = 0f;
    private float currentBrakeForce = 0f;
    private float currentTurnAngle = 0f;

    private void FixedUpdate(){
        currentAcceleration = acceleration * Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space))
            currentBrakeForce = brakingForce;
        else
            currentBrakeForce = 0f;
        frontRight.motorTorque = currentAcceleration;
        frontLeft.motorTorque = currentAcceleration;

        frontRight.brakeTorque = currentBrakeForce;
        frontLeft.brakeTorque = currentBrakeForce;
        rearLeft.brakeTorque = currentBrakeForce;
        rearLeft.brakeTorque = currentBrakeForce;

        currentTurnAngle = maxTurnAngle * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        frontLeft.steerAngle = currentTurnAngle;
        frontRight.steerAngle = currentTurnAngle;

        UpdateWheel(frontRight, frontRightTransform);
        UpdateWheel(frontLeft, frontLeftTransform);
        UpdateWheel(rearRight, rearRightTransform);
        UpdateWheel(rearLeft, rearLeftTransform);
    }

    void UpdateWheel(WheelCollider col, Transform trans) {
        Vector3 position;
        Quaternion rotation;
        col.GetWorldPose(out position, out rotation);

        trans.position = position;
        trans.rotation = rotation;
    }
}```

[lone pivot]

Why when I play my game in the editor my gpu spikes it 80% and even though I have the

    {
        
        QualitySettings.vSyncCount = 0;
        Application.targetFrameRate = 60;

    }```
running

[mint remnant]

Don't think vSync apploes to edit window, why you can only set it on game window in drop down

you could toggle the more intense items off from visibility in the heairchy perhaps to reduce GPU load

[lone pivot]

VSync is set to "Don't Sync"

My scene is very near empty. It's a new project.

[steel stirrup]

Make an enum for direction, a separate class for wheel which contains the motor, collider etc and store those in a dictionary

[lone pivot]

Well ok I just deleted the fishnet network manager and suddenly the GPU usage is fixed. Guess I have to talk with them

[mint remnant]

Maybe you have a tight while loop with excessive drawcalls in it? Sorry really not sure so just throwing out ideas on that

[uncut shard]

Damn I didn't understand a thing

Guess i gotta go learn c# now..

[mint remnant]

Usually a good thing to learn before Unity heh

[steel stirrup]

C# is the absolute baseline to know before even touching Unity imo

[steel stirrup]

Think of it this way, you have four wheels. They’re physically different objects but fundamentally the same type of ‘thing’. Each wheel has a transform, collider and some other fields. These wheels are organized by quadrant (front left, front right etc). Therefore it simply makes sense to describe the concept of a wheel as a class, with each actual wheel being an object of that class. Since we will be accessing the wheels by quadrant, it also makes sense to use a dictionary<direction, wheel> to store them

How you define Direction depends on your game. If every car has four wheels, then an enum is fine. If you want something more flexible, I’d personally define a record and place a vector in it describing the position of the wheel on the cars bounds

[lone sable]

I'm trying to get the Normal point of a Navmesh sample position, however, it seems to be always returning "Up" Or in this case, 0.

if (NavMesh.SamplePosition(pointInBox, out hit, 1.0f, NavMesh.AllAreas)) {
                        
                        float slopeAngle = Vector3.Angle(hit.normal, Vector3.up);
                        Debug.Log(slopeAngle);

Anyone happen to know why this might be happening?

[steep rose]

float slopeAngle = Vector3.Angle(Vector3.up, hit.normal);

this should work

(i think)

[lone sable]

Still 0.

For reference, Yellow dot is what is being hit, and, you can see it is on a slope.

[steep rose]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.SamplePosition.html

"hit Holds the properties of the resulting location. The value of hit.normal is never computed. It is always (0,0,0)."

[lone sable]

Damn.

Guess I'll raycast down then.

[vocal urchin]

Hello all. I'm making a traditional roguelike and I currently have each enemy's Stat (an object with a StatType enum and an int, essentially) in a list of Stat objects. There are some issues with this, as you could have an enemy with two of a single stat type, which I would never want, and could also have enemies missing certain stats, which I would also never want. I would like it if when I drag the enemy component onto something, the component initializes with all the StatTypes in the Stat List that I would need and am unsure how I should approach this. Anyone have any ideas?

[lone sable]

Perfect. Seems to work.

And for those curious, building out a debugger for some AI. Basically, Red means they can't shoot the player, yellow is a low priority location where they can shoot the player, and green being where I'd prefer them to be.

https://gyazo.com/1a508f9f9c8e0396860b0cccf0c76bee

[mint remnant]

Sounds a bit confusing, have some code to show or inspector views?

[steep rose]

you could have a StatTrack script on your enemy and when initialized in game you could access that script and take what you want from it

[marble hemlock]

So GetKeyDown is for pressing it once and GetKey is for holding?

[cosmic dagger]

Check the Unity docs to read their description . . .

[marble hemlock]

sometimes here just to clarify

[steep rose]

docs clarify

[marble hemlock]

i am not the sharpest tool. i struggled a bit to figure out the difference between button and key

[cosmic dagger]

The docs are absolute (rulers of the Unityverse) . . .

[uncut trench]

Yo I need help

[mint remnant]

lay down on the couch and start from hte beginning

[vocal urchin]

Sure, here are my Stats and Stat classes. Stats is a component that any enemy or player character requires. Stat is a class that contains a StatType and int for the stat's level. The problem is, if I make a new enemy or player character, I have to manually access the statList via the inspector, and add a stat of each type which is prone to mistakes. Perhaps making each enemy initialize from a scriptable object is best for this?

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

[System.Serializable]
public class Stat
{
    public enum StatType
    {
        HEALTH, MAXHEALTH, STRENGTH, DEXTERITY, INTELLIGENCE, MELEEATK, RANGEDATK, STAMINA, MAXSTAMINA, STAMINAREGEN, MANA, MAXMANA, MANAREGEN, 
    }
    public int statValue;
    public int effectiveStatLvl;
    public StatType statType;

    public Stat(StatType type)
    {
        statType = type;
        statValue = 1;
        effectiveStatLvl = 1;
    }
    public Stat(StatType type, int lvl)
    {
        statType = type;
        statValue = lvl;
        effectiveStatLvl = lvl;
    }



}```

[uncut trench]

Soo much help required so I was creating a game we'll fps multiplayer game it's all working fine but when I add sliding the code seems fine but when I slide it doesn't work animations is there lol so I leave it there then I tried to do like switching animator which basically like switch from player movement animations with no guns to animations with guns

Yea idk what I'm doing

[rich adder]

then why are you making a networking game? that requires a massive amounts of experience

[uncut trench]

I'm making it to play lol and publish on steam

[rich adder]

if its not good and buggy, nobody is going to want to play it. Start with an easier project

[uncut trench]

It's going to be good

[rich adder]

and it wont be good because frankly, if you need to ask You're not ready

[uncut trench]

It is

[rich adder]

its broken, clearly not

[summer stump]

Beginner is not a channel to ask about networking issues #archived-networking
Or for this specificly, #🏃┃animation

But networking is a very advanced topic.

[uncut trench]

Oh wait dang this a beginner's

[cosmic dagger]

Create a constructor with a collection (array/list) parameter to pass in stats through code or a preconfigured list. You can also read from a ScriptableObject . . .

[uncut trench]

The thing is it's not bout networking or animation but code

[summer stump]

Can you try restating your question a bit more clearly. Using more punctuation too (or ANY punctuation)

[uncut trench]

I ain't good at grammer but will try so the thing is its bout to switch from different animator controller to another oh wait it is bout animations. basic player movement to player movement with weapons like rifle idle or rifle walk

[summer stump]

There is literally not a single period or comma in this...

It is like a stream of thought impossible to follow.
I have no clue what your problem is at this point. Something about... movement and animations?

[steep rose]

punctuation please

we cant help you if we dont understand it

[uncut trench]

I'll give an example so like GTA V the player movement walk, run and other but when player holds a gun it like switch animations rifle walk and other stuff.

U understand now I didn't use commas or stuff

[vocal urchin]

Ok I see. I didn't realize things like Awake on ScriptableObjects are called only when the ScriptableObject is created and not while the game is running. Sweet :). Thanks

[steep rose]

so you want to know how to make an idle, walking, running, and shooting animations for guns?

if so i would ask in #🏃┃animation

[uncut trench]

No

Not animations

[steep rose]

weapon switching?

or if you are holding a weapon, change movespeed to that weaponspeed?

[summer stump]

How is this not animations? You want an animation for walking, and an animation for walking with a rifle, right?

[steep rose]

do you want to change playermovement depending on what you are holding?

[uncut trench]

Yes

[uncut trench]

Yep

[steep rose]

ah

ok

[uncut trench]

Dang well that took a sec

Maybe min

[steep rose]

you can use an if statement with an enum or boolean to and make changes to your movement depending on what you are holding

[misty pecan]

parts.Add(Instantiate(smallCircle, targetPos, Quaternion.identity ));

What is wrong with this? parts is a list<Transform>, i dont get an error in the code, but in the editor, it says "Object reference not set to instance of an object" even though all the fields are filled in??

[uncut trench]

Ohhh i see

Explain

[shell ice]

How could I make an object still be moveable but after letting go of said object it freezes in place? I'm trying to make a camera that I can place somewhere and it stays there when I can move it somewhere else when need in game.

[summer stump]

@uncut trench This is..... an extremely basic issue then.... i recommend going through the learn course so you can have the foundation needed to actually solve these kind of basic things of your own
!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[uncut trench]

Our understanding is on another level

[summer stump]

You could consider an FSM though, for different states the player can be in

[uncut trench]

But will do

[summer stump]

I know, that is why I suggested learning

[uncut trench]

U mean playmaker right

[steep rose]

thats

[summer stump]

? No

[steep rose]

he didnt even mention playmaker

[uncut trench]

True

[steep rose]

if you are using playmaker i would suggest going to thier discord server

[vocal urchin]

Couldn't you just disable the physics components when movement isn't needed?

[steep rose]

and asking this question there

[uncut trench]

I don't use it lol

[steep rose]

then why did you mention it

[uncut trench]

Idk

[shell ice]

I don't really know how to. I kinda just have a rigid body component attached

[tepid idol]

Is there a specific support channel or is this it?

[summer stump]

Every channel is (with a VERY few exceptions)

[uncut trench]

Well it's been pleasure talking even tho understanding is hard

[rich adder]

depends on the problem

[steep rose]

you could freeze the position of the rigidbody via contraints or setting it to kinematic

easiest way

[summer stump]

Rigidbodies cannot be disabled, but they can be set to kinematic. Didn't see what was going on, just thought I would say that

[shell ice]

I tried making in kinematic but all movement stops

[steep rose]

make it kinematic when you want it to be

not always

[vocal urchin]

Oh sorry, I misread your question. How is it moving right now? You might be controlling the movement through code, which could be overriding the physics engine. Is the rigidbody dynamic? Can you post your movement script?

[tepid idol]

My camera controller just isn't working in-game. Works how it's supposed to in scene but once I start up the game, it's stuck. I've been working on the problem for the past few days and can't seem to figure it out.

By stuck, I mean it's zoomed in on a tree and won't move.

[shell ice]

This whole thing is being done in vr. I have a grabbable script on my object. gimmie a sec I'll get the script

[steep rose]

we would need to see some code

[rich adder]

inside the game you mean when you press play ?

[summer stump]

So when you let go, set isKinematic to true

[tepid idol]

Yes

[summer stump]

When picked up, set it to false

[rich adder]

take a screenshot of the Console window when that happens

[shell ice]

Is there a way I can specify this for a specific object and not the rest?

[steep rose]

you can just get the rigidbody component of what you grab

easy as that

[shell ice]

How can I do that?

[steep rose]

im guessing you are using a package for vr so you can either make another script that references the grab script and just take what the object grabs and get the component on it.

it most definitely has a either private or public GameObject type in it for whatever object it is currently grabbing so use that when you want to get the rigidbody component from it.

if this doesnt help you, i would suggest !learn ing some basics

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[summer stump]

Of course. Referencing is one of the first things you should learn in unity.
https://unity.huh.how/references

And also see this

[steep rose]

you got these loaded for situations like these 😂

[bleak sleet]

It dont work

both layers are given

but it just doesnt even come into the loop

[mint remnant]

add in some Debug.DrawRay()'s to verify rays are going where you think they are?

[rich adder]

are the logs even printing?

also your ide doesnt look configured

[bleak sleet]

They are cause they play the sound that is given in HitTarget();

[bleak sleet]

The Hit:ColliderName does work but the Debug.Log("Shot") doesnt

[bleak sleet]

whats that?

[rich adder]

your code editor

[bleak sleet]

is that important?

[rich adder]

so the object you check doesnt have that component

[rich adder]

very much so

[bleak sleet]

it does but it doesnt register it idk?

[bleak sleet]

how do I do so sir

[rich adder]

!vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

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[bleak sleet]

thanks

[rich adder]

according to the code it doesnt

[bleak sleet]

I dont get it, its on it

[sleek kayak]

what's the difference between save and save project?

[rich adder]

well then the object you're grabbing may not be the same as what ur looking at

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk

[bleak sleet]

Thats crazy

It wasnt working just because I was missing a Effect Decal that i deleted

how does that make any logic...

thanks for everything tho

[bleak sleet]

Why doesnt the Decal apply onto the Mesh where it hits?

[rich adder]

are we supposed to know if pos is even correct 🤷‍♂️

[shell ice]

Know how to fix this?
Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Rigidbody' to 'HurricaneVR.Framework.Core.HVRGrabbable'

nvm got it

[native hill]

how do i make it so Vector3.MoveTowards(); doesnt go all the way to whatever the target is and have a distance between each other so they arent pushing each other around

[steel stirrup]

these are separate issues

[native hill]

oh, alright thank you

[steel stirrup]

First, Vector3.MoveTowards already doesn't 'snap' to the target, it moves based on the maxDistanceDelta param

If it seems to be snapping to a position instantly, what's likely happening is you're applying it in update and not using Time.deltaTime, so the full step is being applied each frame rather than each second

[native hill]

oh okay, yeah i forgot Time.deltaTime

[fossil loom]

Hey could someone help me figure out why my code doesnt work, this is my first time using unity im following a youtube tutorial right now

[steel stirrup]

For the 'pushing' issue, you should offset where you're trying to move to based on the bounds of the objects involved

[steel stirrup]

Read the exception and then move your eyes slightly to the right

What does it say next to "Lol"?

[fossil loom]

none rigid body 2d

do I need to put something there?

[steel stirrup]

And the exception says "UnassignedReferenceException: The variable Lol of blahblahblah" so yes

[native hill]

ill try that thank you

[steel stirrup]

It's on the GameObject, but it's not set as Lol, so Lol is still null

you need to drag it into Lol, or grab it via GetComponent in BirdScript

[steel stirrup]

The more you dig into this the more likely you're going to wind up needing to look into actual pathfinding

Not a problem, just a heads up to start looking in that direction if this comes up frequently

[native hill]

that sounds like a pain but ill need it in the future anyways, thank u for telling me

[steel stirrup]

In all honesty its easier

[fossil loom]

So I drag "Rigid Body 2D " into None (RigidBody 2D)?

[native hill]

really? thats good to hear

[steel stirrup]

A bit weird to get your head around at first, especially if you're not familiar with graphs

but once you have it implemented once it's very, very easy to work with

[native hill]

i suck with graphs 💔 ill try my best though

[steel stirrup]

If you want to get started, I'd say go ahead and take a shot at making a flowfield based pathfinder

that's (imo) the most intuitive

[native hill]

whats flowfield?

[steel stirrup]

It's a type of pathfinding that's best suited to reaching fixed points from anywhere. Essentially you create a graph where each node only flows to one other node

And you determine that 'flow' based on weights

a flowfield of gravity could look like this

[native hill]

ohh that sounds fun, ill try watching a tutorial to understand it

[steel stirrup]

Much simpler than Djikstra or A* to get started imo, and very useful for any game with large numbers of units as the actual 'pathfinding' is O(1) for the agents

[steel stirrup]

Yes

[fossil loom]

thank you

[native hill]

im looking at it right now, its cool thanks

[steel stirrup]

in case it's handy, here's a basic implementation (you will almost certainly want to 'reverse' the flow so it goes towards lowest concentration/cost. My terrain costs are inverted from the usual so higher = cheaper)

[native hill]

that looks hard but ill try my best, thank you i appreciate it

[spiral yarrow]

Uhh idk if this belongs here, but I cannot find a way to configure the old input system for Mouse X and Mouse Y. Can anyone tell me what to do?

[vocal urchin]

abstract classes are so nice bros

[spiral yarrow]

It gives me this error
ArgumentException: Input Axis MouseX is not setup.
To change the input settings use: Edit -> Settings -> Input

[steel stirrup]

it's "Mouse X"

not "MouseX"

[spiral yarrow]

Ohh

Dang

[spiral yarrow]

thx

[spiral yarrow]

Yeah I just saw it sorry :/

[ionic zephyr]

If I have a list of possible drops (GameObjects) and I want to check in each of them an specific component variable in order to know which of them should be instantiated them is it too much to do a foreach in which I do GetComponent ?

[bleak sleet]

Anyone know why the forward goes from the Object Transform and not from the Transform attackPos???

[steel stirrup]

Why don't you already know what's in each?

Think of your overall structure

Rather than worry about what GetComponent costs, I think you should consider why you've wound up in a situation where you want to use it in this way

[summer stump]

How could we know without seeing code?

[bleak sleet]

I sent a pic

[summer stump]

Oh weird. It hadn't loaded before

Ok, show the attackPos object
Do not crop

[ionic zephyr]

Because I have this "DropComponent" which has Lists of GameObjects(Drops) depending on which tool or weapon was used to get them. These drops have ranks (S,A,B,C) and depending on the weapon rank the drop will be different. That is why I want to distinguish each drop by a OVERWORLD Item script which has the rank information. In order to check the rank should I create a foreach that checks each of the drops in the list if they have an specific rank?

[bleak sleet]

its just a empty object in my Hierarchy

but it still goes forward from the Collider

[eternal needle]

sounds like you can just have a list of DropComponent. very rarely should you actually need a reference to GameObject

[ionic zephyr]

the dropcomponent contains the list

public class DropComponent : MonoBehaviour
{
public List<GameObject> FistDrops;
public List<GameObject> AxeDrops;
public List<GameObject> PickAxeDrops;
public List<GameObject> HammerDrops;
public List<GameObject> BladeDrops;
public List<GameObject> ShovelDrops;

[summer stump]

Ok, show the attackPos object
Do not crop

[bleak sleet]

I got it I need to change the pos and not the direction lol

[steel stirrup]

Create a drop class and add the gameobject + rank information to that

[eternal needle]

Then still, apply what I said to these items. Reference the actual component you want

[steel stirrup]

then store Dictionary<weapon, List<drop>>

[shell ice]

I did it 😁

[ionic zephyr]

But I need to instantiate a GameObject anyway

[steel stirrup]

Are there multiple instances of DropComponent?

[eternal needle]

You can instantiate from a reference to a component and itll spawn the whole thing

[ionic zephyr]

yes

[steel stirrup]

And they're all different?

[ionic zephyr]

yes

[steel stirrup]

alrighty, so this might be the one time in history I'm going to say just use a scriptable object

[ionic zephyr]

what do you mean? sorry I´m not getting it

[eternal needle]

It means just directly use the type of the component you want to use rather than GameObject. Whatever component that stores the rank

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, sorry for the confusion, now I get it

thanks, both of you!

[steel stirrup]

I think there's a better way to organize this, let me just throw something together real quick

https://hatebin.com/stifdbqnba Here's how I would go about it

This way all the actual organization is handled upfront and fetching a drop is nice and quick

you'd have a single list in the Dropper editor and just drag and drop over some Drops from your assets, no need to worry about makign sure they wind up in the Axe list or the Sword list or whatever

[fossil loom]

Bro Can you help me? what does this mean

[mint remnant]

Well this is sure a nasty little thing if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, groundedMask)) it happilly took groundedMask and turned it into maxDistance lol

[steel stirrup]

It means it expects a semicolon at the end of that line

[summer stump]

Don't ping specific people for help
It is a basic syntax error. All standalone statements need a semicolon to complete.

[fossil loom]

thank you

[fossil loom]

im sorry im new to unity

this is my first time making a game

he helped me before

my bad

[ionic zephyr]

That´s an interesting way to see it, I haven´t used dictionaries for now but I managed to understand what you were showing me

[summer stump]

Have you done a pure c# course before? I always recommend this one
https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php
It will help a lot with the foundation you need

There are also pinned materials in this channel

[steel stirrup]

My general rule of thumb with this sort of thing is that it's almost always better to organize data long before you actually need it, that way you can frontload all the processing. Players don't really care about an extra couple milliseconds when a game first starts, they will notice it if the frametime is inconsistent once they're actually playing though

[ionic zephyr]

I´ll keep that in mind whenever I try to organize data this way, thanks a lot for your help!

[steep rose]

neato

good job man

[fossil loom]

ty bro

[summer stump]

!code

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[steep rose]

we can wait dont worry man, take your time

[tepid idol]

Here is UI_Shop
https://hatebin.com/hcejoqyqwd

_closeButton.onClick.AddListener(CloseShop);
I believe

[steep rose]

i dont see anything about a camera in this script, i think we would need to see the camera script then

please answer after your work so we can help you better

[slow knot]

I need help with something, I'm making a 2d top-view car minigame, and I did all the mechanics, like the car moving, drifts and physics. But I don't know how I can make the car not be able to leave the track, right now it can go anywhere without problem, like can get out of the track. But I want to keep it inside the road. Not being able to go out.

[steep rose]

you can add colliders at the edges of the track

to make sure the car cant go out

[slow knot]

Figured it out. I tried colliders for like 5 hours. Found out the background had a box collider. That's why it was glitching

[steep rose]

that will do it

[slow knot]

Thank you

[crisp token]

Anyone know why Target0 is being assigned for all these slots given the heirarchy?

[wintry quarry]

GetComponentInParent<Transform> is equivalent to .transform

It searches itself before going up the hierarchy

[crisp token]

oh i just cahnged it to .parent

thanks

[wintry quarry]

You can just do .transform.parent

Yeah

[crisp token]

why would it do this

[wintry quarry]

It's convenient

For many things

Plus for Transforms those functions aren't that useful since you have.parent etc

[crisp token]

ig, but they should have a separate method then

[wintry quarry]

Probably

[lone pivot]

is the InvokeRepeating method a good way to do tickers?
instead of running stuff every frame

[summer stump]

You should avoid InvokeRepeating always. Use Update, Coroutines, or Tasks

[gloomy jacinth]

I have an AI pathfinding monster in my game and i have it able to walk up slopes so it changes the rotation of the monster to match the rotation of the stairs. But it stays rotated forever while walking around so how do i make it not rotate vertically at all?

[final trellis]

btw just wondering bc google is extremely unhelpful, is there a way to mesh.RecalculateNormals(); but without normal smoothing?

[tepid idol]

https://hastebin.com/share/vozawofaza.java

[valid shuttle]

I'm new to unity, and I wanted to learn visual scripting. does anyone know of a video tutorial on how to get something started.

[gloomy jacinth]

Can someone look over my text and see if they have a fix to it?

[native hill]

should i learn some more oop before learning algorthims?

i havent been very focused with it

[summer stump]

Might wanna ask in the visual scripting server
#763499475641172029

I do recommend just learning code though. It is arguably easier, or less arguably just as easy.

[steel stirrup]

You should be completely comfortable with every basic feature of C# before moving onto algos and data structures

[native hill]

okay! i watched a video about flow field and how to make it and i was really confused when i tried understanding what was happening

[cosmic dagger]

that's a bit advanced if you're just learning OOP and basic C# . . .

[native hill]

yeah, I’m gonna work on getting better before trying something like that

[sick jay]

Anyone got a quick fix for this?

[steel stirrup]

Don't add force if it would cause it to exceed the max speed, and increase drag rapidly as speed exceeds maxspeed

[cedar bone]

How would I go about procederally making an ammo indicator in unity without having a different prefab for each gun type?

[night raptor]

I don't know if there's a better way but I'd consider making a custom shader for the indicator and changing the bullet count with the material properties

[steel stirrup]

this is really more of a UI question, but if you want something graphical you're just going to use the ammo represented as a percent, and if you want numbers just... get the numbers

[cedar bone]

im going graphical, but how then would I make the small grey things in between

[cedar bone]

ive never touched shaders, so im not thinking about going that route

[eternal needle]

did you look at any tutorials on how to do this?

[cedar bone]

i couldnt find any

but prov cause im searching the wrong thing

idk what its really called

[night raptor]

Well, if you are not doing shaders, then making each bullet section out of one UI element and disabling/enabling them to change the bullet count might be an option

[cedar bone]

what about when a different gun has a different max bullets

thats the hard part

cause for a a gun with 4 max bullets, i have to make quarters

but for a gun with 5 max bulelts id have to make into fifths

and make them both occupy the same space

[eternal needle]

you most definitely wouldnt want each tiny bullet UI to be its own game object.
You could just go with an image and use the fill with like radial as the choice. I dont exactly remember what it was called

[night raptor]

That would require masking the gaps out though

[eternal needle]

Whats hard about that? just placing an image on top to act as gaps would be sufficient

[cedar bone]

but then that'll be a ton of gmae objects

and id have to make more of them for smthing like a mahcine gun

where tehres a ton of bulelts

[eternal needle]

what im suggesting would literally be 2 objects

and really, you're gonna need custom stuff per gun no matter what you do. Unless you wanna go the shader route

[cedar bone]

😔

ill just do a percentage thing rn, and then once i dwell into shaders ill do that

[eternal needle]

Image with fill options should get you pretty far as well, the only custom part would be the images used above/below the filled image

[night raptor]

I think that unfortunately using shaders would be the only plausable way to do the indicator dynamically change for any gun type without any extra work for each gun. Luckily I don't think it would be that hard of a shader to do though

[cedar bone]

can you elaborate on the fill options?

like what setting exactly?

[eternal needle]

these options

unity took a bit of time to open, and honestly i couldnt even find it on the docs

[steel stirrup]

? It should be one

have a base polygon representing the shape of that guns bullets, and just draw it on a texture X times

[cedar bone]

but that'll change the shape

i want it to occupy the same shape though

[steel stirrup]

What do you mean it would change the shape?

It'll take whatever shape you write it to take, you'd scale the individual bullets based on the number you want to fit, and I assume you'd probably alter the overall layout to match the type of weapon being displayed

[cedar bone]

how would I scale it?

cause if i scale it on the y axis, itll be squished

[steel stirrup]

No, not in the inspector, on the texture itself

[cedar bone]

whats the differencebetween raw image and image?

[steel stirrup]

iirc raw image uses a texture rather than a sprite, hence being raw

[cedar bone]

whats the difference?

im a bit dumb

[steel stirrup]

Practically, different parts of unity expect different inputs. Technically, it's that a sprite encapsulates a texture and includes some extra information. It's very easy to generate sprites from textures and access textures from sprites

Regarding Raw Image, it has other uses but 99% of the time it's just there for render textures

[tepid idol]

If anyone is up and has any idea why my camera won't move, it'll be helpful. I've set up the inputs in unity, checked everything that my knowledge will let me, and well, no dice. The scene allows me to scroll perfectly fine, it's just once I press "play", it's zoomed into a tree and doesn't let me click, scroll, or do anything that resembles any kind of movement.
https://hastebin.com/share/vozawofaza.java

[steel stirrup]

you're using touch inputs regardless of whether it's actually supported

[tepid idol]

Well it's going to be for mobile, should I disable touch inputs until I'm ready to release for mobile?

[steel stirrup]

What's throwing me is that youre checking if touch supported is false, but then not actually respecting it so far as I can tell

Honestly, I'm not sure if this is just a thing with the new input system, but this entire thing seems hideously overcomplicated

That could just be me, but without any comments or documentation in there I cannot really follow what you're trying to do

Like you're initializing with about a dozen magic numbers, and some of them are readily apparent but others I can't make heads or tails of

[drowsy flare]

Is it possible to hide a Canvas in the editor, but show/enable it when loading the scene?

I have tried "unchecking" it in the editor, and using this code:

        canvas = GameObject.Find("Canvas");
        canvas.GetComponent<Canvas>().enabled = true;

But it doesn't do what I want.

I also tried the following:

        var objectCount = objects.Length;
        Debug.Log("Found objects to activate: " + objectCount);
        foreach (var obj in objects)
        {
            Debug.Log("Found an onbject to activate: " + obj);
            obj.SetActive(true);
        }```
But it didn't find all deactivated objects, I guess they arent loaded to the scene?

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/Manual/SceneVisibility.html

[steel stirrup]

That method specifically states it doesn't grab inactive objects.

gotta read the tooltips

[tepid idol]

This is what I followed for camera control. https://youtu.be/kaU11fqe5yE?si=fbMCP5LdaYIPb-pr

Unsure if it helps clarify things. But the camera controller is similar to what you see in isometric games like Clash of Clans.

[drowsy flare]

Awesome, thanks!

[drowsy flare]

What editor is this?

[steel stirrup]

Rider

[drowsy flare]

Thanks, gonna check it out. Tooltips looks awesome 🙂

[slender nymph]

that's not exclusive to rider. a properly configured IDE should show the code's XML comments. i know it works in Visual Studio. vs code may be iffy

[steel stirrup]

you can find the same info in the online docu as well https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag.html

[drowsy flare]

@steel stirrup s method of just hiding the objects in the editor did the job perfect 😉

[steel stirrup]

that was the other guy

[steel stirrup]

honestly just log the inputs it's actually using, because I'm pretty sure they're not what you expect

[cedar bone]

how do I check the last value of a variable

cause i wanna do smthing the frame that the variable 'state" changes from air to walking

[teal viper]

Cache it.

[short hazel]

Use another variable!

[cedar bone]

so store it as another variable?

[teal viper]

Yes

[cedar bone]

but thats a waste of a whole variable

[steel stirrup]

There are a bunch of ways to do it, but if you just want to do 'something' on change, then make it a property and throw whatever you want to do in the setter

[teal viper]

Well, how else do you expect to store it then?

[slender nymph]

alternatively, you could use a property that does whatever it is you want to do when its value is changed

[short hazel]

Waste? That's a first for me
They're literally made to store values

[marble hemlock]

can someone give me an example of a situation where you'd use Awake instead of Start?

[steel stirrup]

ex

[marble hemlock]

I'm reading the documentation and looking it up, and I'm kind of getting an idea of what its supposed to do, but I can't think of a situation of when I'd use anything except Start

As far as I understand, Awake runs at the start regardless if the script is active but I don't really understand why

[steel stirrup]

and here I am wishing we also had a LateStart()

[tepid idol]

The only thing console is telling me is: https://i.gyazo.com/365db41276329ac9fb620729179c89ab.png which will be line 20 since i removed the namespace. https://hastebin.skyra.pw/waxololowu.csharp

[teal viper]

For example, you have an object that instantiates other objects, and you need to reference these instantiated objects from a third object(your script). In this case you'd instantiate on awake and get the reference to the objects in start.
Because in awake there's no guarantee that they have been instantiated yet.

[steel stirrup]

In general, don't try to debug when you have an unrelated exception, they tend to cause unpredictable and nonsensical behavior

Solve that before you try to fix your camera

[tepid idol]

The camera issue was happening before this, I just skipped the camera issue and figured I'd come back to it.

[steel stirrup]

Yeah, and it's almost certainly unrelated, but exceptions can cause really, really bizarre behavior. Basically you can't trust that anything in your game is actually running correctly if you have exceptions popping up.

[marble hemlock]

okay so

if im using something that the other scripts are going to need to use on Start, then i use Awake to do it first?

[tepid idol]

I'm getting no issues in VS so I'm really lost as to why it's telling me this.

[steel stirrup]

is it missing a reference in the inspector?

IDE usually won't help with a null ref unless it's like HashSet whatever = null; whatever.add(x)

[queen adder]

is there an attribute that tells "you can only have one of this type in a scene"?

[tepid idol]

AddListener should be yellow but for some reason, it's white. So I know it's not being read correctly, I just am not sure how to get it to read it correctly.

[queen adder]

like [DisallowMultipleComponent] but for whole scene

[steel stirrup]

I've never used VS, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

[teal viper]

It's a matter of execution order. Start is guaranteed to run after awake, so if there's some initialization that needs to be done before your code, the initialization should be in awake, while your code that depends on it - in Start.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[teal viper]

No attribute, but there's a singleton pattern.

[steel stirrup]

easiest way is to just have a static reference and register to it on Awake or OnEnable (depending on usecase), throwing an exception if its not null and not self

[teal viper]

Is your !ide configured correctly?

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

    #if UNITY_EDITOR
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[steel stirrup]

I mean the first question is why, right?

Why are you in a situation that this is actually an issue

[teal viper]

You could make it into a static utility method or something.

[steel stirrup]

This is putting a bandaid on a wound that shouldn't exist

also the least efficient way of doing that possible

If you really need to check, then just use a static reference so you aren't searching everywhere

[tepid idol]

I'll check right now, I just laid back down because I opened the Main UI script and saw the colors for SeralizeField disappeared and decided to lay down in defeat. Everything should be installed correctly but I'll go back and check again to make sure so I can rule that out

[queen adder]

what you talking about, im using editor reset already, why would i need to put extra runtime load

[steel stirrup]

same approach works for editor, just have it run in editor and register

[teal viper]

Well, you never specified that it should prevent the user from putting that script in the scene.

[queen adder]

pretty sure this did

is there an attribute that tells "you can only have one of this type in a scene"?

[steel stirrup]

Restricting a developer from placing things in a scene is just kind of a strange ask

[teal viper]

Ok, my bad for misinterpreting the question.

[ripe shard]

This is the actual purpose of the singleton pattern. There is no attribute for that though.

[queen adder]

The real question is the "attribute" part

Ive written dozens of singletons in my life

[teal viper]

You can write your own if you really want to. Attributes are not magic. They're just some more code.

[sweet sierra]

I want the quaternion rotation to basically be whatever it is of what I'm instantiating. How do I do that?

Like... I don't want to change the default orientation

[steel stirrup]

If it's a child, Quaternion.identity, otherwise just copy the rotation

[ripe shard]

Use original.transform.rotation

[sweet sierra]

It's a child to the canvas

[sweet sierra]

Despite it being a child, as hyu said?

[steel stirrup]

when you say you want it to be the rotation of 'whatever you're instantiating'

do you mean literally the one saved in the prefab?

[sweet sierra]

Yes, exactly

[steel stirrup]

you shouldn't need to do anything

[ripe shard]

That Rotation is always in world space

[sweet sierra]

I shouldn't but apparently If I want to assign position AND have a parent of the object, then I also need to provide position

There's no overload that only needs position and parent transform

[steel stirrup]

so just do them separately?

[sweet sierra]

As in.. assign the position later?

[steel stirrup]

you don't gain anything by using the overloads, it's just convenience

[sweet sierra]

Like... instantiate with the [object, parent] overload. Then do object.transform.position = position; correct?

[ripe shard]

The overloads reduce the number of transform updates and recalculations of the hierarchy

[steel stirrup]

Practically it really doesn't matter

[ripe shard]

Until you make a real game 🫨

[sweet sierra]

Like this:

GameObject textInstance = Instantiate(randomTextPrefab, position, randomTextPrefab.transform.rotation,canvasTransform);

[tepid idol]

It's configured correctly

[ripe shard]

Yes, but mind that root prefab‘s transforms are not supposed to have pos/rot values that have any meaning, they aren’t saved and respected like other overrides. You can use them, they just aren’t great for workflow reasons.

[sweet sierra]

Understandable. I'll keep that in mind 🫡

[drowsy flare]

Is there any editor tool to have an icon on an object shown in editor? The object doesn't have a visual representation in the game, but it would help to see it clearly in the editor

[steel stirrup]

you can draw a gizmo

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnDrawGizmos.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GizmosAndHandles.html

[drowsy flare]

This is even better, thanks a lot

[errant flower]

a very dumb question but how to stop random animations from just playing on start

i tried disabling the animator but i feel there is a better solution

nvm did it

[teal viper]

Ok, then take a screenshot of the issue in your ide.

[pale ocean]

hello all, this is my first time using unity on my own and i'm trying to make a flappy bird clone, anyways im trying to check if there's a pipe under the player. So I'm using this code csharp if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out RaycastHit raycastHit, 2f, PipeLayerMask)) { Debug.Log("pipe?"); } however it's not logging anything, anyone have a clue why? this code is in the player class

[rich adder]

if its not printing then its not hitting anything or you placed it in wrong spot

[pale ocean]

not at all its in the right spot

the layer mask is on the parent of the cylinder

[languid spire]

show your declaration and value for PipeLayerMask

[tawdry agate]

any Idea, why I cant assign a gameObject to a Script on a Prefab?

[languid spire]

because you cannot assign scene objects to prefabs

[tidal kiln]

damn youre fast

[languid spire]

It's a question we answer 100's times per day

[tawdry agate]

ah, ok, then how do I get a reference of my player to a Prefab? It can be disabled at the time it searches for it, so find() doesnt work

[tidal kiln]

yea but i only got to type 2 words lol

[languid spire]

hold a reference in the script that instantiates the prefab and then pass it to the instantiated object

[pale ocean]

this is the relevant file https://hastebin.com/share/okiqoxotoj.csharp

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[pale ocean]

as for the value its just a layer i made

[tawdry agate]

ok, thx

[rich adder]

Show you setup layers on the inspector of this script and the pipe object

[languid spire]

but looking at your screenshot your cylinder is on the Default layer

[pale ocean]

yes but the parent is of the layer Pipe